List of endangered birds
- Extinct in the wild (EW): 5 species
- Critically endangered (CR): 218 species
- Endangered (EN): 416 species
- Vulnerable (VU): 741 species
- Near threatened (NT): 971 species
- Least concern (LC): 7,872 species
- Data deficient (DD): 61 species
As of September 2016, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) lists 416 endangered avian species.[1] 4.0% of all evaluated avian species are listed as endangered. No subpopulations of birds have been evaluated by the IUCN.
For a species to be considered endangered by the IUCN it must meet certain quantitative criteria which are designed to classify taxa facing "a very high risk of exintction". An even higher risk is faced by critically endangered species, which meet the quantitative criteria for endangered species. Critically endangered birds are listed separately. There are 634 avian species which are endangered or critically endangered.
Additionally 61 avian species (0.59% of those evaluated) are listed as data deficient, meaning there is insufficient information for a full assessment of conservation status. As these species typically have small distributions and/or populations, they are intrinsically likely to be threatened, according to the IUCN.[2] While the category of data deficient indicates that no assessment of extinction risk has been made for the taxa, the IUCN notes that it may be appropriate to give them "the same degree of attention as threatened taxa, at least until their status can be assessed."[3]
This is a complete list of endangered avian species evaluated by the IUCN. Where possible common names for taxa are given while links point to the scientific name used by the IUCN.
Penguins
Procellariiformes
Includes petrels and albatrosses.
- Northern royal albatross
- Ashy storm petrel
- Polynesian storm petrel
- Peruvian diving petrel
- Sooty albatross
- Phoenix petrel
- Henderson petrel
- Barau's petrel
- Bermuda petrel
- Black-capped petrel
- Atlantic petrel
- Zino's petrel
- Bannerman's shearwater
- Hutton's shearwater
- Newell's shearwater
- Indian yellow-nosed albatross
- Atlantic yellow-nosed albatross
- Grey-headed albatross
Gruiformes
("Crane-like")
- Grey crowned crane
- Whooping crane
- Red-crowned crane
- Talaud rail
- Masked finfoot
- Okinawa rail
- Lord Howe woodhen
- Rusty-flanked crake
- Junin crake
- Takahē
- Olive-winged trumpeter (Psophia dextralis)
- Bogotá rail
- Plain-flanked rail
- Slender-billed flufftail
- Sakalava rail
Parrots
There are 39 parrot species assessed as endangered.
Kakapo species
Cockatoos
Psittacids
- Diademed amazon
- Lilac-crowned amazon
- Imperial amazon
- Amazona lilacina
- Yellow-headed amazon
- Red-browed amazon
- Vinaceous-breasted amazon
- Red-crowned amazon
- Lear's macaw
- Great green macaw
- Red-fronted macaw
- Sun parakeet
- Grey-cheeked parakeet
- Chatham parakeet
- Red-and-blue lory
- Ouvea parakeet
- Wallace's hanging parrot
- Purple-naped lory
- Yellow-eared parrot
- Night parrot
- Green-thighed parrot
- Green racket-tail
- Golden-shouldered parrot
- Echo parakeet
- Santarem parakeet
- Perija parakeet (Pyrrhura caeruleiceps)
- Azuero parakeet (Pyrrhura eisenmanni)
- El Oro parakeet
- Pfrimer's parakeet
- Santa Marta parakeet
- Thick-billed parrot
- Maroon-fronted parrot
- Brown-backed parrotlet
- Kuhl's lorikeet
- Ultramarine lorikeet
Ciconiiformes
Suliformes
Pigeons and doves
- Wetar ground dove
- Santa Cruz ground dove
- São Tomé olive pigeon
- Polynesian imperial pigeon
- Marquesan imperial pigeon
- Mindoro imperial pigeon
- White-fronted quail-dove
- Indigo-crowned quail-dove
- Tolima dove
- Pink pigeon
- Black-naped pheasant-pigeon
- Tawitawi brown dove
- Rapa fruit dove
- Mariana fruit dove
- Blue-headed quail-dove
- Comoros green pigeon
- Timor green pigeon
- Tuxtla quail-dove
Pelecaniformes
("Pelican-like")
Galliformes
- Waigeo brushturkey
- Sichuan partridge
- Gunnison grouse
- Red-billed curassow
- Wattled curassow
- Maleo
- Micronesian megapode
- Tongan megapode
- Gorgeted wood quail
- Horned guan
- Helmeted curassow
- Green peafowl
- Baudo guan
- Cauca guan
- Manipur bush quail
- Black-fronted piping guan
- Hainan peacock-pheasant
- Bornean peacock-pheasant
- Mount Cameroon francolin
- Swierstra's francolin
- Nahan's partridge
- Udzungwa forest partridge
Bucerotiformes
Includes hornbills, hoopoe and wood hoopoes.
Accipitriformes
Includes most of the diurnal birds of prey.
Anseriformes
("Goose-like")
Owls
Charadriiformes
- Marbled murrelet
- Great knot
- New Zealand plover
- Black-fronted tern
- Chatham oystercatcher
- Black-billed gull
- Far Eastern curlew
- Plains-wanderer
- Tuamotu sandpiper
- Australian painted-snipe
- Moluccan woodcock
- Black-bellied tern
- Peruvian tern
- Guadalupe murrelet
- Shore dotterel
- Nordmann's greenshank
- Hottentot buttonquail
- Buff-breasted buttonquail
Passerines
- Bokikokiko
- Cape Verde warbler
- Tahiti reed warbler
- Basra reed warbler
- Speckled reed warbler
- Pitcairn reed warbler
- Elegant sunbird
- Tricolored blackbird
- Yellow-shouldered blackbird
- Thyolo alethe
- Ash-breasted tit-tyrant
- Amani sunbird
- Sokoke pipit
- Apalis flavigularis
- White-eyed starling
- Perijá thistletail
- Yellow-headed brush finch
- Black-spectacled brush finch
- Pale-headed brush finch
- Noisy scrubbird
- Rufous scrubbird
- Gold-ringed tanager
- Grey-headed warbler
- Grauer's swamp warbler
- Golden-backed mountain tanager
- Selva cacique
- South Island kōkako
- Red siskin
- Warsangli linnet
- Yellow-billed cotinga
- Whistling warbler
- Bare-necked umbrellabird
- O'ahu ʻelepaio
- Prigogine's greenbul
- Aberdare cisticola
- Apolinar's wren
- Recurve-billed bushbird
- Santa Cruz shrikebill (Clytorhynchus sanctaecrucis)
- Cochabamba mountain finch
- Black shama
- Seychelles magpie-robin
- Flores crow
- Banded cotinga
- Bolivian spinetail
- Scaled spinetail
- Grey-crowned crocias
- Forbes's blackbird
- Matinan blue flycatcher
- Flame-templed babbler
- Eastern bristlebird
- Western bristlebird
- Golden-cheeked warbler
- Grand Comoro drongo
- Tablas drongo
- Chestnut-bellied flowerpiercer
- Venezuelan flowerpiercer
- Bahia tapaculo
- Yellow-breasted bunting
- Jankowski's bunting
- Turner's eremomela
- Zapata wren
- Lompobattang flycatcher
- Black-hooded antwren
- Restinga antwren
- Mauritius fody
- Rufous-fronted laughingthrush
- Collared laughingthrush
- Belding's yellowthroat
- Black-polled yellowthroat
- Cundinamarca antpitta
- Jocotoco antpitta
- Ochre-fronted antpitta
- Yellow cardinal
- Mao
- Black-cheeked ant tanager
- ʻAkiapolaʻau
- Kaempfer's tody-tyrant
- Ash-throated antwren
- Humblot's flycatcher
- Usambara hyliota
- Streak-breasted bulbul
- White-throated mountain babbler
- Gabela bushshrike
- Braun's bushshrike
- White-browed tit-spinetail
- Hispaniolan crossbill
- Hawaiʻi ʻakepa
- Rufous-headed robin
- Colombian mountain grackle
- Sharpe's longclaw
- Pulitzer's longbill
- Rufous-throated white-eye
- Gola malimbe
- Ibadan malimbe
- Black-eared miner
- Saint Lucia black finch
- Chuuk monarch
- San Cristóbal mockingbird
- Ash's lark
- Yellowhead
- Biak monarch
- White-tipped monarch
- Flores monarch
- Monticola erythronotus
- Rufous flycatcher
- Paria whitestart
- White-bellied blue robin
- Nilgiri blue robin
- Santa Marta bush tyrant
- Sri Lanka whistling thrush
- Scalloped antbird
- Loveridge's sunbird
- Jamaican blackbird
- Wilkins's finch
- Hawaiʻi creeper
- Silver oriole
- Slaty becard
- Forty-spotted pardalote
- Maui alauahio
- Black robin
- Palkachupa cotinga (Phibalura boliviana)
- Urich's tyrannulet
- Bahia tyrannulet
- Alagoas tyrannulet
- Antioquia bristle tyrant
- Minas Gerais tyrannulet
- Peruvian plantcutter
- Gurney's pitta
- Superb pitta
- Banded wattle-eye
- Golden-naped weaver
- Bates's weaver
- Clarke's weaver
- Usambara weaver
- Lulu's tody-flycatcher
- Marquesan monarch
- Plain-tailed warbling finch
- Rufous-breasted warbling finch
- Gabela helmetshrike
- Galápagos martin
- Baudó oropendola
- Fringe-backed fire-eye
- Azores bullfinch
- White-breasted thrasher
- White-throated jungle flycatcher
- Slender antbird
- White-throated wren-babbler
- Teardrop white-eye
- Paramillo tapaculo
- Marsh tapaculo
- El Oro tapaculo
- Magdalena tapaculo
- Yellow-throated seedeater
- Rubeho akalat
- Gabela akalat
- Usambara akalat
- Algerian nuthatch
- Giant nuthatch
- White-browed nuthatch
- Worthen's sparrow
- Botha's lark
- Marsh seedeater
- Negros striped babbler
- Mallee emu-wren
- Black-chinned laughingthrush
- Marsh antwren
- Pinto's spinetail
- Blackish-headed spinetail
- Russet-bellied spinetail
- Bahama swallow
- Cabanis's tanager
- Mount Kupe bushshrike
- Yellow-rumped antwren
- Orange-bellied antwren
- Zapata sparrow
- Long-legged thicketbird
- La Selle thrush
- Giant kingbird
- Chocó vireo
- Van Dam's vanga
- Sierra Madre sparrow
- White-winged cotinga
- Stresemann's bushcrow
- Spotted ground thrush
- Bridled white-eye
- Gizo white-eye
- Seychelles white-eye
Caprimulgiformes
There are 22 species in the order Caprimulgiformes assessed as endangered.
Hummingbirds
- Purple-backed sunbeam
- Venezuelan sylph
- Mangrove hummingbird
- Chestnut-bellied hummingbird
- Honduran emerald
- Santa Marta sabrewing
- Esmeraldas woodstar
- Blue-capped hummingbird
- Hook-billed hermit
- Royal sunangel
- Scissor-tailed hummingbird
- Marvellous spatuletail
- Violet-throated metaltail
- Perijá metaltail
- Black-backed thornbill
- Glow-throated hummingbird
- Grey-bellied comet
- Long-tailed woodnymph
Nightjars
Swifts
Piciformes
("Woodpecker-like")
- Yellow-browed toucanet
- Kaempfer's woodpecker
- Red-headed flameback
- Yellow-faced flameback
- Lesser crescent-chested puffbird
- White-rumped woodpecker
- Speckle-chested piculet
- Varzea piculet
- Red-necked aracari
- Ariel toucan (Ramphastos ariel)
Other bird species
See also
- Lists of IUCN Red List endangered species
- List of least concern birds
- List of near threatened birds
- List of vulnerable birds
- List of critically endangered birds
- List of recently extinct birds
- List of data deficient birds
References
- ↑ "IUCN Red List version 2016-2". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 8 September 2016.
- ↑ "Limitations of the Data". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 11 January 2016.
- ↑ "2001 Categories & Criteria (version 3.1)". The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN). Retrieved 11 January 2016.